Sentences with phrase «protective factors associated»

The risk and protective factors associated with PTSD symptom change among former child soldiers in Sierra Leone were investigated.

The CDC - funded project provides a coordinated and integrated public health response to addressing the risk and protective factors associated with youth violence and teen dating violence.

This paper provides a very good summary of protective factors associated with resilience and outlines methods to enhance such protective factors in group intervention environments.

Develops outcome - driven service plans geared to decrease risk and increase protective factors associated with child maltreatment

Protective factors associated with preadolescent violence: Preliminary work on a cultural model.

Describe developmental issues and coping / protective factors associated with complex trauma in young people.

Adolescents with learning disabilities: risk and protective factors associated with emotional well - being

1The information in this fact sheet is adapted from a review of the research conducted by Kelly, J. (2012) Risk and protective factors associated with child and adolescent adjustment following separation and divorce: Social science applications, Chapter 3.

Understanding the impacts home visiting programs have had on children's social and emotional development begins with identifying those programs that have affected antecedent risk and protective factors associated with child and emotional development in addition to specific social and emotional outcomes.

What is the evidence of effectiveness of home visiting to increase protective factors associated with reductions in the risk of child maltreatment?

Objective To identify risk and protective factors associated with suicide attempts among native male and female adolescents.

Positive youth development principles provide a foundation for lessons to enhance self - efficacy, positive identity, and pro-social behaviors which are all protective factors associated with abstinent behavior.

To identify risk and protective factors associated with suicide attempts among native male and female adolescents.

In a world - first, nib foundation's funding support will enable Smiling Mind to conduct the largest evaluation of an app - based mindfulness intervention program - to measure the impact of their program on increasing the protective factors associated with mental health and wellbeing such as social connection, sleep quality, and developing personal coping skills and resilience to deal with the stresses of everyday life.

Amie's research interests focus on the prevention of problem behaviors in youth, with a particular focus on identifying malleable risk and protective factors associated with the development of problem behaviors, and examining the impact of evidence - based interventions on reducing or preventing the development of such behaviors within low - income populations.

Understanding the impacts home visiting programs have had on children's social and emotional development begins with identifying those programs that have affected antecedent risk and protective factors associated with child and emotional development in addition to specific social and emotional outcomes.

Meta - analyses of this expanded research base confirm the model's impacts on a range of risk and protective factors associated with child maltreatment.7, 8,9 In addition, all of the major home visitation models in the U.S. are currently engaged in a variety of research activities, many of which are resulting in better defined models and more rigorous attention to the key issue of participant enrolment and retention, staff training and quality assurance standards.10 For example, recent findings emerging from the initial two - year follow - up of the Early Head Start National Demonstration Project confirm the efficacy of home visitation programs with new parents.

Living with competent parents is a protective factor associated with positive outcome in children (Heatherington and Stanley - Hagan, 1999; Kelly and Emery, 2003; Verrocchio et al., 2013).

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All families complete a Parent Survey or similar assessment in order to determine the presence of various factors associated with increased risk for child maltreatment or other adverse childhood experiences, as well as identify family strengths and protective factors.

Co-sleeping in the form of separate surface co-sleeping is protective, and there is no singular risk factor associated with bedsharing, as is often claimed, since how and by whom it is practiced makes an enormous difference in outcome.

† Because many of the case - control studies demonstrated a protective effect of breastfeeding against SIDS in univariate analysis but not when confounding factors were taken into account, 62,184,198,231,238 these results suggested that factors associated with breastfeeding, rather than breastfeeding itself, are protective.

It appears, then, that what Dr. Campbell found was that under certain experimental conditions where high doses of a carcinogen have been used to initiate pre-cancerous lesions, complete proteins divorced from all the natural protective factors they are associated with in whole foods will, through their growth - promoting properties, promote the growth of those cancers.

The cause of heart disease is not animal fats and cholesterol but rather a number of factors inherent in modern diets, including excess consumption of vegetables oils and hydrogenated fats; excess consumption of refined carbohydrates in the form of sugar and white flour; mineral deficiencies, particularly low levels of protective magnesium and iodine; deficiencies of vitamins, particularly of vitamin C, needed for the integrity of the blood vessel walls, and of antioxidants like selenium and vitamin E, which protect us from free radicals; and, finally, the disappearance of antimicrobial fats from the food supply, namely, animal fats and tropical oils.52 These once protected us against the kinds of viruses and bacteria that have been associated with the onset of pathogenic plaque leading to heart disease.

Furthermore, an epidemiological study to identify the risk factors associated with osteochondritis dissecans indicated that so - called premium foods that are higher in protein seem to have a protective effect (9).

New study white paper issued January, 2016 demonstrates that Make Parenting A Pleasure ® is effective in improving outcomes for stressed families, assisting highly stressed families in improving Protective Factors that are associated with reducing the risk of child abuse and neglect, such as parental resilience, social connections, knowledge of parenting and child development and the social and emotional competence of children.

Describe protective and risk factors, including stigma, associated with adolescent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections

Future articles will address persistence and change in psychiatric disorders (including onset, remission, and recurrence), comorbidity, associated functional impairments, and the risk and protective factors related to these disorders and impairments.

protective factor A characteristic at the biological, psychological, family, or community (including peers and culture) level that is associated with a lower likelihood of problem outcomes or that reduces the negative impact of a risk factor on problem outcomes.

It is important to note that while the factors listed have been found to be associated with a reduction in the risk of mental health difficulties, this does not mean that a particular factor or combination of factors will necessarily be protective for all children.

For example, in the NSCAW study, foster children with experiences of severe maltreatment exhibited more compromised outcomes.32 Other scholars suggest that foster care may even be a protective factor against the negative consequences of maltreatment.33 Similarly, it has been suggested that foster care results in more positive outcomes for children than does reunification with biological families.34 Further, some studies suggest that the psychosocial vulnerability of the child and family is more predictive of outcome than any other factor.35 Despite these caveats, the evidence suggests that foster care placement and the foster care experience more generally are associated with poorer developmental outcomes for children.

The concept of resilience and closely related research regarding protective factors provides one avenue for addressing mental well - being that is suggested to have an impact on adolescent substance use.8 — 17 Resilience has been variably defined as the process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation in the context of risk or adversity.9, 10, 12, 13, 18 Despite this variability, it is generally agreed that a range of individual and environmental protective factors are thought to: contribute to an individual's resilience; be critical for positive youth development and protect adolescents from engaging in risk behaviours, such as substance use.19 — 22 Individual or internal resilience factors refer to the personal skills and traits of young people (including self - esteem, empathy and self - awareness).23 Environmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco and alcohol use.

Possibly, mania is a more purely biologically driven phenomenon than bipolar depression, with onsets more readily attributable to medication inconsistency, sleep deprivation, circadian disruption, or behavioral activation.21,22,84 - 86 In contrast, social and familial support has been found to protect against depression in bipolar and unipolar affective disorders, but the role of these variables in manic recurrences is unclear.86 - 88 An analysis of laboratory interactional data from a subset of 44 families in this sample revealed that treatment - related improvements in family communication skills were more closely associated with reductions in patients» depressive than manic symptoms.56 Thus, manic and depressive symptoms may be influenced by different constellations of risk and protective factors.

Since a secure parent - infant attachment relationship is associated with positive developmental outcomes and has been found to be a protective factor in the face of adversity, it behooves us to develop, implement and evaluate attachment - based intervention / prevention programs.

Because not all children with depressed mothers show later problems, research must also examine risk and protective factors that are associated with different patterns of early child development and adjustment.4, 5 For example, are children whose mothers have a family history of depression or who were depressed before or during pregnancy at especially high risk for adjustment difficulties?

As a result of the in - home intervention, risk factors associated with at - risk populations will be turned into protective factors

20160225 Understanding The Protective Factors Framework: Resources for Building a Toolbox and Strengthening Families Karen Sweeney, NYSPEP - CSPE, Protective Factors Framework Trainer - Sweeney & Associates; and Kara Georgi, NYS Community Cafes Parent Leader, Protective Factors Framework Trainer.

FHF targets risk and protective factors that have been identified as strong predictors of adolescent risk behaviors and associated outcomes.

This article describes the findings of a national evaluation of Parents Anonymous ® by assessing whether participation in Parents Anonymous ® is associated with changes in child maltreatment outcomes and in risk and protective factors.

Prevalence, definitions, and underlying risk and protective factors (e.g., individual, family, school, peers) associated with these behaviors will be presented.

The skills and strategies that children and teens gain through SEL have been shown to increase protective factors and reduce risk factors associated with suicide (AAS & SPTS, 2012).

Moreover, maternal internalizing symptoms were associated with both physiological indices in their children, specifically with higher HRV but lower IS, suggesting an interesting relationship between maternal psychological problems and autonomic processes related ER (as a potential protective factor) in their children.

Of particular interest, risks associated with poverty were mediated by disruptions in the quality of the caregiving environment, particularly instability and disorganization of the family, while affectional ties within the family and within extrafamilial informal support systems acted as protective factors.

In particular, Natvig et al observed a protective effect between student support and depression, a symptom commonly linked to a range of somatic symptoms in other studies.4, 7,18 Additional research is needed to determine whether some risk factors for somatic symptoms can be effectively addressed through positive peer networks, and if so, what mechanisms can be used to mitigate the negative effects of poor peer relations associated with bullying.

Marriage is the central relationship for the majority of adults, and morbidity and mortality are reliably lower for married individuals than unmarried individuals across such diverse health threats as cancer, heart attacks, and surgery.1 - 4 Although loss of a spouse through death or divorce can provoke adverse mental and physical health changes,1,5 - 7 the simple presence of a spouse is not necessarily protective; a troubled marriage is itself a prime source of stress, while simultaneously limiting the partner's ability to seek support in other relationships.8 The impact of a turbulent marriage is substantial; for example, epidemiological data demonstrated that unhappy marriages were a potent risk factor for major depressive disorder, associated with a 25-fold increase relative to untroubled marriages.9 Similarly, other researchers found a 10-fold increase in risk for depressive symptoms associated with marital discord.10

Findings suggest that genetic variants associated with traits, such as educational attainment, body mass index, and schizophrenia, also capture environmental risk and protective factors.

This study aims to identify the risk and protective factors most associated with cognitive / language and socio - emotional development of vulnerable children receiving preventive or protective services.

Findings indicate that co-occurring psychiatric symptoms and their associated mental health risk / protective factors may have important clinical implications and generally support a biopsychosocial model of psychopathology in children with an ASD that appears to share many similarities with models for nonASD children.

Conversely, protective factors, such as positive belief systems and partner / social support, were found to be negatively associated with parenting stress in this review which supports previous research in this area (e.g. Zvara et al. 2015).